The effect of fin geometry on design of compact off-set strip fin high temperature heat exchanger

American Society of Mechanical Engineers, Heat Transfer Division, (Publication) HTD

Volumn 376 HTD, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 191-199

  Subramanian, Sundaresan ^a   Ponyavin, Valery ^a   DeLosier, Clayton Ray ^a   Chen, Yitung ^a   Hechanova, Anthony E ^a   Peterson, Per F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b Etcheverry Hall MCI 730   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIN GEOMETRY; LIQUID SILICON; NUMERICAL MODEL;

CARBON CARBON COMPOSITES; GEOMETRY; HYDROGEN; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUCLEAR REACTORS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SILICON; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

HEAT EXCHANGERS;

EID: 33645674593     PISSN: 02725673     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2005-81894     Document Type: Conference Paper

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